how to update spyder on anaconda

Question

I have Anaconda installed (Python 2.7.11 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Feb 16 2016, 09:58:36) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32) and I am using Spyder 2.3.8

Answer 1

Using pip directly:

WARNING: This will break your Anaconda Installation as described by Spyder maintainer in the comments below; you can try this solution only if the solution mentioned above that use Conda do not work

pip install --upgrade spyder

You might get an error once launching the new Spyder "nbconvert >= 4.0: None (NOK)", which will require you to resinstall configparser:

conda uninstall configparser

conda install configparser

You should now have a fresh and up to date installation of Spyder.